July 07, 1849

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Features

Railroad News

Iillnois Railroad Convention

To Mary

Galena and Chicago Railroad

New Lithographic Printing Press

Heat at St. Louis

Cholera at Saratoga

The Cotton Crop in Mississippi

Ten Hour System at Washington

A Grave Joke

Improvement of Western Rivers

To Obtain Salts of Potass for Felspar

Superior Dental Operation

“Sun Stroke”

Cholera

Bad News for Rogues

Lead Pipe for Water

Book Binding

Sea Serpent Book

Manufacture In Georgia

Collins' Steam Ships

Silex

Restraint on Marriage

Motion

Water Wheels

MATTEAWAN, June 28, 1849.

Animal Heat

Economy of Chemical Discovery

Nitrogen and Some of its Applications

New Discovery for Soldering lron or Steel

Railroad Speed and Power

New Uses of Granite

New Pigments

Manufacture of Iron

A Cuba Rocking Chair

Powder to Make Iron Malleable, and to Clean it

New Machine for Carving

Explosion Preventer

To Prepare Cotton Cloth to Write on as a Substitute for Paper

Steam Hod Carrier

Another Aerial Ship

Decision in the Telegraph Case

Cholera Mixture

American Navigation of the Orinoco

Declaration of Independence

Lightning Conductors

List of Patents

New Calculating Machine

Gentle Woman

Pressure of the Atmosphere

The History of Steam Navigation

A Queer Head Dress

Chicory in Coffee

Straw for Bonnets

Manufacture of Glass

The Water Cure Journal and Herald of Reforms

Patent Laws and Business

Ingenious Lead for Sounding the Depth of Rivers

The Best Mechanical Paper in the World!

Departments

From the Editor

To Correspondents

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